riazan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "The following telegram reached me to-day from Moscow: “At Riazan the Bolkhofsky regiment mutinied on June 19. The men surrounded the Officers’ Club and fired upon it. Several officers were killed. Panic prevails at Riazan. A pogrom is expected. The Jews are fleeing.” I have received no further details. This is possibly due to the interception of news from Riazan."
- "She [Natalia Reshetovskaya] first met Solzhenitsyn in 1936 in Riazan, 125 miles south-east of Moscow. […] Her only contact with the KGB, she says, was when a black Volga took her to meet a security officer staying at a Riazan hotel in 1973: […]"
- "First, it is described how, after a confrontation by the River Vozhda in 1378, the Golden Horde tried to restore its authority over Rus’, and how Mamai—by that time representing the whole power of the Horde—planned a campaign and made an alliance with Lithuanian Iagailo and Oleg [II] of Riazan."